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Monday, May 28, 2012

Drupal Global Training Day is a worldwide training day designed to
introduce people to the Drupal project. These are training courses that
are designed to bring a student from no-Drupal knowledge to a place
where they can choose to be a developer, themer, designer, site
architect, engineer, etc.

Working with training providers from around the world, Drupal Global
Training Day is a single day where a student can attend a training in
most major cities worldwide.

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Fremont based global technology
services company DCKAP announced today it has up-shifted its Drupal development
service keeping in pace with surging market growth.

Drupal 7, the advanced version of
Drupal, has features like Better HTML5, Better mobile support, Improved
multilingual features, Setting up Drupal 7 on a modern web development
framework. Drupal experts can build the most effective and customized business
web applications. Drupal is a widely used content management system (CMS) well
suited for web applications of any kind from web logs (blogs) and micro sites
to collaborative social communities. The versatile platform for Drupal
development now comes with a new user interface, accessibility improvements,
powerful image handling capabilities, support for rich content metadata,
security features, scalability and database interoperability enhancements and
automated tests to ensure stability.

Drupal 7 releases before 7.12
contained a bug which prevented the use of custom menus. Because the Menu Block
module provided a workaround for this bug as it added dependency to this
module. With the release of Drupal 7.12 and Menu Block 2.3, the bug was
successfully removed. Upgrading the existing Drupal 7 and 6 sites is however strongly
recommended.

DCKAP Drupal developer team, using
Drupal 7, 7.12 has successfully completed and delivered a diverse range of
Drupal web applications for business, for its various clients,. DCKAP’s Drupalprogrammers now work from the new fully equipped development center and also on
client site as required.

Drupal is an excellent choice of a
Content management system for any business site. A Drupal site built by an
expert Drupal programmer can easily grow and expand to suit the needs of any
business as the business expands. It gives the business owner complete control
over content on the site.

Developing effective business
applications requires specialized expertise in the technologies. For a business
considering contracting a Drupal development company or a Drupal developer/
Drupal programmer, it would be of great significance to select the right Drupal developer resources and setting out the specifications with clarity and
completeness.

However, Angela's level of responsibility in the community has grown
significantly in the past 3.5 years, and she wears many hats, from
Drupal Association board member to code sprint planner to Drupal.org
coordinator to evangelist to general community cat herder. We both felt
that it was time to transition the role of Drupal 7 core co-maintainer
off of her plate, in order to give her more time to focus on her other
community roles.
When thinking about replacements for Angela, David Rothstein was at
the top of my list. David was a key contributor to Drupal 7 and heavily
involved in a wide range of issues throughout the code base. He was also
on the Drupal Gardens team, developing against Drupal 7 while it was
still in active development, and so has a very thorough and deep
understanding of Drupal 7's internals. David is extremely conscientious
and thorough in his reviews, and is incredibly calm and respectful in
his communication style.

I'm thrilled to say that David accepted the invitation to join the
core co-maintainer team, and will have time to work on managing Drupal 7
releases through community time provided by his current employer, Advomatic. David will not be committing to the Drupal 8 branch, but will be focused on guaranteeing the quality of Drupal 7.

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Drupal is developed into one of the most complex open-source content
management systems (CMS) on the market and is represented by an array of
top notch sites. Drupal is the perfect choice for large Enterprise
websites that has high traffic. Drupal is famous for its relatively
rapid build time. It is also known for its dynamic nature as websites
designed on the Drupal framework can be altered by modifying modules.
Drupal can be used to manage easily all aspects of a website, from
adding content and images to updating a product catalogue, processing
credit card payments or taking online reservations.

Drupal is a cost effective CMS solution as it allows Drupal programmers
to develop complex websites in minimal time period compared to what it
would take using other commercial CMS technologies. There are thousands
of community-contributed modules that extend the flexibility of Drupal,
so the chances of Drupal supporting almost all the features is high; and
if at all a drupal developer can't find a module that suits the
requirements, the developer can program new modules quickly and
efficiently. After installing a Drupal website and is made to run, it is
simple for non-technical users to add or edit content, update images,
and to manage the critical data. Basic word processing skills is enough
to manage a Drupal site

• Friendly URLs – Drupal uses Apache’s mod_rewrite to enable URLs
that are both user- and search engine-friendly, which can help your
search rankings.

• Permalinks – All content created in Drupal has a permanent link or
“permalink” associated with it so users can link to content freely
without fear of broken links, another feature that is likely to boost
search ranking and page views.

• Taxonomy and Tagging – Drupal enables you to define hierarchical
categories that can be used to tag and organize content, as well as
fields for content authors to apply free tags. Tagging content can help
enhance your site’s organization, enable related content linking, and
assist in the definition of meta-keywords that can boost search
rankings.

• Platform Flexibility – Drupal was designed from the start to be
multi-platform. It can be installed and run on Apache, Linux, Solaris,
Windows, and Mac OSX platforms.

2012 is indeed a great year for Drupal Developers
as they get opportunity to get together with other developers in the
same field to share their ideas and enhance their insights about Drupal
programming and its updates. Drupal camps are held all over the world
this year. This article will give you details where the Drupal camps
were held and where all it is going to conducted. The following is the
list when and where various Drupal camps are held:

During these conferences Drupal developers / programmers will be
immersed in the world of Drupal. Through a wide range of presentations
one will learn more about all the latest Drupal development.
Tricks and tools to easily keep tabs on your website's usage,
performance, security, and content, leveraging existing data, practical
decisions based on Drupal data, visualized and various other valuable
thoughts will be shared by Drupal expert.

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Back in 2009, Groups.Drupal.Org (GDO) went through a major transition
including upgrading from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6, a redesign, and adding
new maintainers. We are currently in the process of a similar
transition. The site has already gone through a redesign, and as we make
plans to transition to Drupal 7, we will also be moving to new
maintainers for the next year.

Monday, May 7, 2012

We are thrilled to announce that Google will be sponsoring 13 Drupal projects for Summer of Code 2012. We would like to extend our sincere thanks to Google, who are investing over $72,000 in the Drupal project.

As always, we had many more projects that we would have liked to
accept than we were able to. The mentoring team deliberated fiercely
over the past two weeks, and arrived at the final acceptance list.

Drupal will benefit from microdata support for contrib field types,
help topic module for documentation team, sales reports integration for
drupal commerce, materialization plugin support for views, search api
statistics etc.

If you would like to keep up to date on Summer of Code happenings,
would like to volunteer to help test students' projects, and/or would
like to help students as they find their way in our community, please
join the SoC 2012 working group and help out in whatever ways you can.
Here's to another great summer! :)